Attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, alleging that new federal rules undermine their ability to protect rivers, lakes and streams within their borders.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday that seeks to bar people in the U.S. illegally from being counted in congressional reapportionment, a move that drew immediate criticism and promises of court challenges on constitutional grounds.
President Donald Trump is set to be officially renominated in a shrunken Republican convention truncated to four hours in Charlotte, North Carolina, next month because of the coronavirus.
A Baltimore police officer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to possessing child pornography.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's prominent role in the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic has become Topic A in his bitter campaign against Democratic challenger Amy McGrath, providing fodder for both sides.
The Justice Department on Tuesday accused two Chinese hackers of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars of trade secrets from companies across the world and more recently targeting firms developing a vaccine for the coronavirus.
Tesla's losses were mounting last summer, massive debt payments were looming, and both Wall Street and federal regulators had run out of patience with the erratic behavior of CEO Elon Musk.
"I thought that was the end of the world for me, really," pitcher Kenta Maeda joked afterward. "I couldn't have done anything worse."
The commission that will design a new Mississippi flag without the Confederate battle emblem will meet for the first time Wednesday, possibly without full membership.
Daily death count for COVID-19 has remained below double digits for 18 straight days in Minnesota.
Solid pitching teams will have a greater advantage than normal over hard-hitting teams in this 60-game season. And the 2019 Twins won 101 games as a hitting team
The United Daughters of the Confederacy has agreed to let a north Louisiana parish move an ornate 30-foot-high (9-meter-high) Confederate monument from the courthouse grounds to private land.
President Donald Trump pulled the plug on his freewheeling daily coronavirus briefings when they turned into a political liability this spring, but he was reviving them Tuesday, looking to halt a campaign-season erosion of support as new cases spike across the country.
Attorneys for a coalition of news organizations are scheduled to appear in a Minneapolis courtroom Tuesday to argue for a scaled back gag order and greater access to body camera videos in the case of four former officers charged in the death of George Floyd.
The collision occurred on Hwy. 14, about 20 miles northwest of Mankato.
Consortium will solicit design solutions from around the world.
The pandemic may very well last another year or more.
Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill will hear motions this afternoon from defense attorneys and a coalition of media organizations seeking an end to the gag order.
Crews from eight fire departments were called in to battle a blaze at a dairy cooperative that is one of Burnett County's largest employers and is a popular stop for tourists in western Wisconsin.
With the opener on Sunday, the tone of the scrimmage against the defending WNBA champions was more important than specific Xs and Os.
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Some current and former employees of a company developing an oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota filed a lawsuit claiming they are owed wages and bonuses.
The plea comes as attorney Ben Crump joins the dead man's family in pushing for the businessman to be prosecuted.
